Everton 1 Arsenal 0: More Away Day Gunner Blues!

Everton Continued Their Fine Form With Another Win Against One Of The Top Four As Arsenal Fail To Turn Up At Goodison Park! Two Captains Make Headlines! Match Highlights. Manager Comments. Player Ratings and Stats

By: Marc Gingell

Arsenal’s away day problems continued at Everton where they could have been beaten by four or five instead of one. That defeat means Arsenal have only six points away from home during their last nine games. Only three teams have a worse record than that – Bournemouth, Fulham, and Huddersfield.

Match Details

7/4/2019

Goodison Park

Everton

1-0

Arsenal

KO:15:00

ATT: 39,400

Phil Jagielka 10′

REF: K Friend

Captain Phil Jagielka – Match Winner

Thirty-six year old Everton captain Phil Jagielka, who didn’t expect to play in this game, turned out to be the match winner and put in a joint man of the match performance to help Everton keep their third win and clean sheet in a row. What makes it even more special is that two of those wins came against the top four clubs.

Pattaya One: Phil Jagielka scores for Everton.

Jagielka tapped in from just inside the six-yard box after a long throw on Everton’s left that Arsenal failed to clear. From that point on Everton had many opportunities to put this game to bed but failed to take any. If they had a four or five nil score would not have been out of place.

Pattaya One: Far from captain fantastic Mesut Özil is replaced.

Captain Mesut Özil – Substituted

Mesut Özil made his first Arsenal away start since Boxing Day and Unai Emery made him captain for the day. This could have been a challenge for Özil, to see if wearing the captain’s armband had an impact on his away day performances, which in turn might generate a better Arsenal away day performance.

Way before 74 minutes, when Emery threw the towel in on Özil and hooked him from the action, it was clear that this plan B had totally failed. Özil, four out of ten, didn’t respond and neither did his teammates who received similar ratings apart from goalkeeper Bernd Leno.

Pattaya One: Mesut Özil throws his jacket towards the touchline.

Emery’s master plan back-fired and, with four away games out of six left to go, he needs to find another plan B or Arsenal’s chances of making the top four looks impossible.